Social Studies teachers can use different approaches to teach the concepts and knowledge of the physical and social world that surrounds us. Some teachers use a textbook-oriented approach which focuses teaching primarily on content information from a textbook. And others may use an activities-oriented approach which bases student learning on doing projects, experiments, and activities. For either approach adaptations for students with special needs must be made to reflect the chosen approach to instruction. The following videos, articles, and links exemplify strategies for adapting textbook-oriented approaches and activities-oriented approaches to teaching social studies in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.
Strategies for Promoting Independent Learning from Textbooks
Mulitpass is a learning strategy that is useful for comprehending social studies textbook content information. This PDF outlines the three processes of Multipass "survey, size up, and sort out" by using mnemonics. This process helps students understand the content to better prepare for testing. http://www.unl.edu/csi/Pdfs/mpass.pdf
--Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/28/11
A darn good MULTIPASS STRATEGEY VIDEO (Sean-D 6/26/11)
Strategies For Adapting Textbook Materials
The video outlines the sheltered instruction model of teaching for English language learners and students not reading at grade level. It offers the benfits of promoting prereading and postreading strategies as part of the sheltered instruction model. -Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/21/11.
This video presents several postreading strategies including graphic organizers and graphs to help students with character/story details and comprehension skills. Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/1/11
This is a short video with prereading strategies. It only list the strategies, but the website which goes with this video has several prereading handouts, strategies, etc. http://www.literacyta.com/literacy-skills/prereading# --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/1/11
This video gives a step by step look at what peer tutoring looks like and what classwide peer tutoring is. It also gives the benefits and drawbacks to using this strategy in the classroom. -Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/21/11
This article from TEACHING Exceptional Children offers several strategies, tools, and principles for using differentiated curriculum enhancements in a secondary inclusive classroom. --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/1/11
Adapting Activities-Oriented Approaches in Social Studies
This is a video I found about using technology as an inclusion strategie. This can apply to all subject areas. --Naomi B.
In this video a teacher describes how she uses guided questioning in her class. This strategy is effective with students with disabilities because they can reason with new information by asking questions and be guided by the teacher to investigate the answers to directed questions. --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/28/11
Other Helpful Inclusive Teaching Strategies and Tools
This is a story of a boy with Down's Syndrome and how inclusion has helped him learn.
Naomi Branham
GIST http://www.gistplan.com/about/research computer software for creating lesson organizers and content mastery routines that allows teachers to save, revise and quickly pull-up and implement strategies for disabled students. --Sean D
Team teaching in an inclusive third grade classroom is highlighted in this video. The teachers outline their responsibilities and the effectiveness of co-teaching in the inclusive classroom.
-Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/21/11
I think that this video has a great point that all teachers should be aware of. --Naomi B.
This is a book review that is helpful. Also, reading the book would be a great resource. It is about behavior management in the inclusive classroom.
Naomi Branham 7/1/2011
just kind of a general one about special education and what itslike to find out you are a part of it. They interview the crew of how’s your news a group of developmentally disabled people who do onthe street interviews which ties into social studies. Worth a listen! Andy 7/5
This "feel good" video describes strategies for motivating your students through a supportive environment. --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/12/11
This article titled Using Video as a Teaching Tool With Special Needs Students discusses different technology that can be used with a variety of instructional strategies for teaching students with disabilities.--Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/12/11
This is a slide show about motivation. it is not geared towards SPED students but I like the slide that talks about deep learning vs. shallow learning. I think when modifing
curriculum to get at the big ideas this is a key element.
Social Studies teachers can use different approaches to teach the concepts and knowledge of the physical and social world that surrounds us. Some teachers use a textbook-oriented approach which focuses teaching primarily on content information from a textbook. And others may use an activities-oriented approach which bases student learning on doing projects, experiments, and activities. For either approach adaptations for students with special needs must be made to reflect the chosen approach to instruction. The following videos, articles, and links exemplify strategies for adapting textbook-oriented approaches and activities-oriented approaches to teaching social studies in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.
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Adapting Textbook-Oriented Approaches in Social Studies
Strategies for effective teaching
http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/specconn/main.php?cat=instruction&subsection=ss/main just some genral tips re teaching social studies to special needs students
http://www.nebraskasocialstudies.org/pdf/tsfswdln.pdf good PDF from nebraska re social studies instruction for special needs students.
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/special-education/teacher-resources/6640.html
a huge list of articles on speds teaching
Andy Wolf
Sean-D 6/21/11 (below)
1) http://www.jstor.org/pss/40029687 this is a jstore for a semantic feature analysis
2) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/ web page for multiple semantic feature relationship chart/Graphic Ogranizer downloads
3) Mnemonic Strategies: Note taking video
Curtis Stout(below)
This is a cool little video on special olympics in California.
This video is done by a student and shows the benefits of technology for inclusion.
This video is done by CONNECT and shows/ covers the definition and other valuable info on inclusion.
This video shows how hiphop rhymes can help special needs students learn.
This is a neat video because it covers case law pertaining to LRE and the inclusion of special need students.
This video shows a strategy to use when teaching an autistic student to communicate feelings.
http://academic.evergreen.edu/f/fordter/ContentLit/readstrats.htm
This website is from a school district but it gives a ton of examples of post reading and pre reading activities.
http://www.autisminspiration.com/?gclid=CMqlr6LF1qkCFSN5gwod90Gw7Q
This resource is focused on strategies and lesson plans for children with autism. Very useful source.
Self monitoring strategies and vocab strategies
This web sit is neat in that it gives you tools, and applicable examples.
Sean-D 6/26/11
Here a really good link on some SELF-MONITORING STRATEGIES this whole website is a great resource for teachers, I use it all the time for my homework.
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/pd/instr/strats/selfmonitoring/index.html
Curtis Stout (below)
http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/specconn/main.php?cat=instruction&subsection=cs/mnemonics
This website focuses on mnemonic strategies and how to apply them.
This is a short video with Nicole Caldwell working with a student who has autism. She is showing how modified worksheets work in a class setting.
This art depicts semantic features analysis.
----Curtis Stout-----
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/learning.html#sect6 a general list of tips to keep in mind.
http://ldx.sagepub.com.glacier.sou.edu/content/7/1/11.full.pdf+html you’ll need to log into sage via the library but it’s a good article
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4460341 An interview with the author of the book all kinds of minds. A book about teaching to different abilities including learning disabilities.
Andy 6/28
Strategies for Promoting Independent Learning from Textbooks
Mulitpass is a learning strategy that is useful for comprehending social studies textbook content information. This PDF outlines the three processes of Multipass "survey, size up, and sort out" by using mnemonics. This process helps students understand the content to better prepare for testing.
http://www.unl.edu/csi/Pdfs/mpass.pdf
--Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/28/11
A darn good MULTIPASS STRATEGEY VIDEO (Sean-D 6/26/11)
Strategies For Adapting Textbook Materials
The video outlines the sheltered instruction model of teaching for English language learners and students not reading at grade level. It offers the benfits of promoting prereading and postreading strategies as part of the sheltered instruction model. -Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/21/11.
This video presents several postreading strategies including graphic organizers and graphs to help students with character/story details and comprehension skills. Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/1/11
This is a short video with prereading strategies. It only list the strategies, but the website which goes with this video has several prereading handouts, strategies, etc.
http://www.literacyta.com/literacy-skills/prereading# --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/1/11
This video gives a step by step look at what peer tutoring looks like and what classwide peer tutoring is. It also gives the benefits and drawbacks to using this strategy in the classroom. -Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/21/11
This article from TEACHING Exceptional Children offers several strategies, tools, and principles for using differentiated curriculum enhancements in a secondary inclusive classroom. --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/1/11
http://rtitlc.ucf.edu/Tools/documents/Diff/Planning_Differentiated_Multicultural_Instruction_for_Secondary_Inclusive_Classrooms.pdf
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods/learning-disabilities/8560.html an article about adapting text instruction for peoplewith learning disabilities - Andy Wolf 7/5
Adapting Activities-Oriented Approaches in Social Studies
This is a video I found about using technology as an inclusion strategie. This can apply to all subject areas. --Naomi B.
http://www.icevi.org/publications/ICEVI-WC2002/papers/11-topic/11-brvar.htm and http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/segs01.htm two articles about teaching geography to visually impaired students. Its an interesting read Andy 7/5
Inquiry Learning in Social Studies
In this video a teacher describes how she uses guided questioning in her class. This strategy is effective with students with disabilities because they can reason with new information by asking questions and be guided by the teacher to investigate the answers to directed questions. --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/28/11
This article titled Using Technology to Motivate Middle School Students includes technology applications for inquiry-based learning to motivate students to become engaged with the content.--Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/12/11
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/using-technology-to-motivate-middle-school-students
Active Learning Strategies
This is an exceedingly useful website full of ideas, technology and strategies!http://www.teachtech.ilstu.edu/resources/teachTopics/active.php
-Sean-D 6/26/11
Other Helpful Inclusive Teaching Strategies and Tools
This is a story of a boy with Down's Syndrome and how inclusion has helped him learn.
Naomi Branham
GIST http://www.gistplan.com/about/research computer software for creating lesson organizers and content mastery routines that allows teachers to save, revise and quickly pull-up and implement strategies for disabled students. --Sean D
Team teaching in an inclusive third grade classroom is highlighted in this video. The teachers outline their responsibilities and the effectiveness of co-teaching in the inclusive classroom.
-Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/21/11
I think that this video has a great point that all teachers should be aware of. --Naomi B.
This PDF offers a variety of teaching strategies for students with visual impairments. It also has a comprehensive checklist for making modifications and adaptations in the classroom for students with visual impairments.
http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/AboutCEC/International/StepbyStep/ResourceCenter/ClassroomEnvironment/VOL.33NO.6JULYAUGUST2001_TEC_cox.pdf
--Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 6/28/11
This is a book review that is helpful. Also, reading the book would be a great resource. It is about behavior management in the inclusive classroom.
Naomi Branham 7/1/2011
just kind of a general one about special education and what itslike to find out you are a part of it. They interview the crew of how’s your news a group of developmentally disabled people who do onthe street interviews which ties into social studies. Worth a listen! Andy 7/5
This "feel good" video describes strategies for motivating your students through a supportive environment. --Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/12/11
This article titled Using Video as a Teaching Tool With Special Needs Students discusses different technology that can be used with a variety of instructional strategies for teaching students with disabilities.--Dylana Garfas-Knowles, 7/12/11
http://www.safarimontage.com/News/media/wp_eccd6242009.aspx
Motivation
http://specialed.about.com/cs/teacherstrategies/a/motivation.htm general list of tips and stratagies to help modivate SPED students
This is a slide show about motivation. it is not geared towards SPED students but I like the slide that talks about deep learning vs. shallow learning. I think when modifing
curriculum to get at the big ideas this is a key element.
this is a quick article that talks about the ways that complex instructions can demotivate someone
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-recipe-for-motivation
Andy 7/13
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